Chaoul is an assistant professor at the John P. McGovern Center for Health, Humanities and the Human Spirit at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at the Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Services at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. This is where he began his present work combining Tibetan meditation practices with cancer treatment, which he will be lecturing about Wednesday at the Brown-Lupton University Union.
In reference to how he started this work, Chaoul said, "I was searching..." and paused for a moment to recall how his journey began.
Chaoul was born into a Catholic community in Argentina but was raised in a Jewish family and sent to a Presbyterian school.
He said he did not find what he was looking for spiritually in any of those religions, and went to the United States to study philosophy, where he met Indian transfer students who sparked his interest in Eastern religions.
Chaoul traveled to India and Nepal, where he studied with a number of prominent Tibetan masters, including the Dalai Lama. Chaoul said what interested him the most about his Buddhist teachers was their sincere way of life.
"They would talk about compassion and love and humility, and you can see that in their actions, not just in the Dalai Lama but even in everyday people," Chaoul said. (More)
Source: TCU Daily Skiff
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